A Fair Competition for a Better World
As a New Year’s resolution we can encourage fair competitions across the globe. Individuals, various groups, political parties, communities, business bodies, societies, states etc. would be judged based on the real results that they are capable of creating rather than merely making money just like machines and misusing authorities just like devils. We could reinforce our commitments in creating a benchmark for treating people with the utmost dignity and respect regardless of age, caste, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, nationality, race, religion, region etc. Human rights would not be considered as cliché. Human rights education would be regarded as a pathway to sustainable development. Initiatives can be taken to teach people especially the young game changers about human rights so that they can take actions and help protect human rights around the world. Let’s take a pledge to ensure that people would be entitled to their rights simply because of the fact that they are human beings.
Let’s play our individual roles to leverage the impacts out of our respective positions. As Martin Luther King Jr. said “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” Thus, we must exhibit our individual responsible actions in building a sustainable planet in terms of environment, economy, society and so forth. Above all, together we are stronger and resilient.
We all want name, fame, wealth and leave a legacy. But in order to make that happen we need to do real work instead of just talking. Our greatest growth and progress lies in the area of our greatest discomfort. Initially to realize the power of sincere cooperation, communication and coordination with a view to bringing about real changes, we might feel uncomfortable. But once we are determined and start acting in that direction; we would be amazed the way we tend to get improved and changed while accomplishing our mission in making this world a better place together. There is enormous power in the beginning. Boldness has genius, supremacy and magic in it.
Moreover, George Bernard Shaw, an Irish Playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics observed that “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.”
Hence, we must be devoted not to shun the challenges of discomfort, we would love to go for them. As we do not want to deprive ourselves of enjoying the spirit of unity, togetherness, brotherhood and harmony. This New Year opens up a fresh horizon to create the positive connectivity in case of individual, political, social, commerce and trades, national, international and even global cases. Genuine willpower would be the key to a massive driving force and that would lead to a big difference. Together let’s make an attitude to serve each other irrespective of our stand points. Together let’s build a world that all of us are proud to live in. It is possible if we are aware. Since awareness is the DNA of transformation.
Written by: Shohag Mostafij
